There's been persistent debate about potential health
impacts from drilling and related activities.
Not exact matches
Responding to pressure
from environmental opponents and fearful residents, shale - rich Quebec, France, New York and New Jersey have all imposed moratoriums on shale gas
drilling pending further study of environmental and health
impacts.
They are reaching natural limits on lateral length and suffering
from a phenomenon called «frac hits» which is dropping production and
impacting the economics of infill
drilling in shale wells.
The Thompson campaign has pointed out throughout the city comptroller's run for mayor that he has worked hard on environmental efforts, including attempting to stop natural gas
drilling within or near the city's upstate watershed, which provides drinking water to the city's residents; calling for the preservation of wildlife space in the Ridgewood Reservoir; and issuing a report documenting the
impact of airport congestion at the city's three major airports; and the rise in airport runoff, especially the flow
from Kennedy Airport into marshes in Jamaica Bay.
Apart
from the
impact on cost of production, the NAPE boss noted that «The current price is affecting so many things, as nobody is
drilling for exploration now, and no one is thinking about fancy technology to boost production.
Millennium says in the brief it has complied with all guidance
from the DEC to avoid
impacting high quality streams, including the use of horizontal, directional
drilling which
drills under the stream beds to avoid
impact.
Those include possible exposure to chemicals used in hydrofracking, potential contamination of drinking water sources, and health
impacts from naturally occurring radium that could be brought to the surface through the gas
drilling process.
A document
from Governor Cuomo's administration assessing the health
impacts of hydrofracking, written less than a year ago, says the gas
drilling process is likely safe if proper precautions are taken by the governor's environmental agency, the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC).
A document
from Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration assessing the health
impacts of hydrofracking, written less than a year ago, says the gas
drilling process is likely safe if proper precautions are taken by the governor's environmental agency, the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC).
While it's unlikely to be passed in the Senate, the action reflects state lawmakers» growing worries about potential health
impacts from the natural gas
drilling process.
Even afterward the
impact of the strike was far
from clear: The well soon went dry, and the
drilling techniques Drake pioneered produced just 2,000 barrels of oil in the United States in that first year.
King of the Circle, a tackling
drill in which a player holding the ball must rush
from the middle of the circle through players guarding the circle perimeter, had the greatest rate of
impacts — far higher than those of other tackling
drills or games.
Since the very high
impact rate of King of the Circle is not representative of that found in game play, the authors suggest that this
drill be entirely eliminated
from practice sessions.
In a draft of the health
impact assessment released in February 2011, the School of Public Health researchers concluded that without pollution control measures, emissions
from drilling would likely be high enough to cause disease in Battlement Mesa, including respiratory and neurological problems, birth defects and cancer.
LIFE AND DEATH Rock samples collected
from the Chicxulub crater during a
drilling project in the Gulf of Mexico earlier this year suggest that microbes returned to the site within hundreds of years of the dino - killing
impact.
As the
drill approaches the crater, 800 meters down, scientists expect to find fewer species of the shell - producing animals that make up the limestone, because life was just recovering
from the
impact.
This month,
from a
drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico, scientists will try to sink a diamond - tipped bit into the heart of Chicxulub crater — the buried remnant of the asteroid
impact 66 million years ago that killed off the dinosaurs and most other life on Earth.
The New Jersey cores were dug with rotary
drills, and there's abundant contamination in the samples, along with many spherules dating to
impacts from different eras.
By
drilling into a circular ridge inside the 180 - kilometer - wide crater rim, researchers also hope to nail down the processes that form «peak rings»: hallmarks of the largest
impact craters, which planetary scientists have seen elsewhere in the solar system but which erosion has erased
from other big craters on Earth.
Frontiers of Geophysics Lecture Joanna Morgan, Professor of Geophysics at Imperial College London and Co-Chief Scientist of the IOPD - ICDP Expedition 364 Chicxulub
Impact Crater
Drilling Project, will deliver the Frontiers of Geophysics Lecture, «Chicxulub: The End of an Era,»
from 12:30 — 1:30 p.m. in the New Orleans Theater, located on the second floor of the Morial Convention Center above Hall I - 1.
We defend marine species and habitat
from overfishing, offshore oil
drilling, the
impacts of climate change and ocean acidification, and a host of other threats —
from the Sea of Cortez to the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic, the Hawaiian archipelago to Japan, and Antarctica north to the Arctic Circle.
Emissions
from shale
drilling, gas processing, gas escapes, and diesel exhaust can all negatively
impact air quality.
In the previous video we were allowing them to get acclimated to absorbing the
impact from jump training,
drilling proper landing mechanics and preparing them for the full execution of more complex plyometric exercises.
In response to the negative
impact on English Learners
from over 10 years of «
drill and kill», narrowly focused reading and math curricula and limited access to social science, science and the arts, Californians Together has issued a policy brief to delineate research - based teaching practices with policy recommendations for accelerating the language development and academic growth of English Learners.
Physical habitat damage
from drilling and dredging operations, combined with possible
impacts of oil and chemical spills on benthic prey communities also warrants concern.
The bill aims to thread various needles, for instance including measures to encourage a shift
from coal and oil to natural gas (which produces roughly half the emissions per unit of energy) but in ways that won't alarm environmentalists worried about
impacts of expanded gas
drilling.
Here's an excerpt and link, followed by some reactions
from Hamburg and
from Lawrence Cathles, an earth and atmospheric scientist at Cornell who has published work challenging Cathles and Ingraffea's conclusions on the climate
impact of gas
drilling.
But if case studies show it has taken decades for migration to happen in some places, it at least raises the possibility that it would be too soon to tell about the
impact of fracking or other injection
from drilling.
Public health experts who work on the «shale fields» among
impacted citizens have been ringing alarm bells: «I don't know if I have ever seen a problem as widespread as this with as little information collected about it, and as relaxed an attitude in terms of the sense of urgency, in the sense of responsibility on the part of the state and federal governments, and for that matter, the
drilling industry,» cautioned a seasoned public health toxicologist David Brown
from Southwest Environmental Health Project in my interview for Gas Rush Stories.
Sept. 1, 11:30 a.m. Addendum The Green blog reports that environmental groups and others have met with state officials to discuss fresh assessments of potential health
impacts from horizontal
drilling and fracking.
Updates below Last year, after opponents of hydraulic fracturing made much of an unpublished paper by a doctoral candidate in economics who reported finding health
impacts in infants from nearby gas drilling operations, I wrote a piece titled «When Publicity Precedes Peer Review in the Fight Over Gas Impacts.
impacts in infants
from nearby gas
drilling operations, I wrote a piece titled «When Publicity Precedes Peer Review in the Fight Over Gas
Impacts.
Impacts.»
However, the SA government is subsidising new gas
drilling in the South East and in the Cooper Basin, and also appears to be ignoring the potential climate
impacts of burning the oil potentially to be extracted
from the Bight.
Drilling and site preparation involves small land disturbances, in fact several wells can be
drilled from one 100 ft x 300 ft pad and the plant is only one - story high A large area below the surface is needed and EGS uses lower
impact methods to develop and manage the underground reservoir.
Although oil leaking
from the Deepwater Horizon
drilling platform site may in fact be creating the greatest environmental and economic harm in U.S. history so far, there is new evidence that another looming environmental problem is likely to produce far worse environmental and economic
impacts not only for the United States but particularly for some of the poorest people around the world.
This concern led the EPA to urge FERC «to consider greenhouse gas
impacts from increased U.S. natural gas
drilling in its environmental review of a natural gas export terminal in Louisiana.»
More importantly, against the combined threats of whaling, habitat degradation, pollution, disturbances
from sonar and
drilling activities, overfishing of prey species, and the uncertain looming
impacts of climate change, whales are surviving.
«
Drillers fear that federal protections for more threatened and endangered animals could drive up their costs at a time when the industry is already battered by low oil prices, growing competition
from renewable energy, and increasing attention
from investors and regulators over the climate - altering
impacts of fossil fuels,» DeSmog's Sharon Kelly wrote.
«The BLM's environmental analysis for the March lease sale completely fails to quantify of the very real, direct greenhouse gas emissions that will result
from allowing these areas to be
drilled and fracked and both analyses fail to quantify cumulative
impacts from greenhouse gases.
I am in Washington, D.C. on a trip to talk with Congressmen and Senators
from South Carolina about the need to protect the Southeast coast
from the
impacts of offshore
drilling.
But even without the change, NPS officials are hopeful that direct
impact on federal park property can be avoided with the use of horizontal
drilling techniques
from offsite.
1 According to an EIA analysis of
impacts from OCS
drilling.
Moreover, energy
from oil and gas
drilling is much less harmful to the environment — especially given the high usage of water, the unbearable flow of life - killing nutrients into the Gulf of Mexico, and of course the negative
impacts on gasoline and diesel engines
from the added ethanol (and the lower miles per gallon it delivers).
Quite impressive, though I wouldn't go as far as to compare it with the few Tesla Model S fires (which I put in context here) because the situation is quite different, with only one cell getting relatively low - energy
impacts over a small area compared to a whole battery pack getting a high - energy
impact from a large piece of metal debris or a brick wall or whatever, and on top of that, in one of the fires the firefights
drilled holes in the battery, which made things more spectacular than they otherwise would have been.
Stephen has also represented hundreds of individuals and businesses along the Gulf Coast
impacted by the BP oil spill which resulted
from the sinking of the Deepwater Horizon
drilling rig.
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